Quality Control - minimal-ish ambient-ish techno

Hello everyone

 

I am (also) a lurker around here (trying to change that) --but I think this sub-topic is rad and thought I'd throw some tunes in from my latest experimentation with a new setup. Cheers.

 

https://soundcloud.com/meandor6/treatment

 

https://soundcloud.com/meandor6/b-death-wave-107-bpm

Treatment has some solid sounds and melodic movement, but it's missing an extra touch of magic which is really needed for me to get into tracks in this style of music. B Death Wave 107 Bpm, however, does seem to have a touch of magic in it. Nice strong tone that you stick to and allow to just breathe. Well done there!

Thank you for the kind words and feedback!

New track-- something a little different than the above.

 

https://soundcloud.com/meandor6/owsgs-jaw-grip

Treatment: Lovely exotic melodies that have some medieval feeling to it (or is it just me?). Could imagine this being used in a fantasy role-playing computer game.

 

B Death Wave 107 Bpm: Very calm and relaxing track. I like the background crackle and the mystical feeling. Very Zen.

 

meandor6: Good work with melodies again. Uplfting yet relaxing

 

All in all some solid ambient tracks. But I think you could tweak them some more, add more details and more transitions which would make them less repetitive

The full album is "out". I have a limited run of 50 pro made CDr - If anyone is interested -- I'll do trades. Cheers.

 

https://qualitycontrolalpha.bandcamp.com/album/mbiwnt-works

Another new one-- different approach.

https://soundcloud.com/meandor6/matt-and-his-cohort-of-fuckwads

Nice atmosphere and good production. Especially like that fast bit that comes at the end

  On 8/29/2016 at 6:31 PM, qualitycontrol said:

Another new one-- different approach.

 

https://soundcloud.com/meandor6/matt-and-his-cohort-of-fuckwads

 

W00t! This is great!

The only criticism I have is that the feedback tone at 1:16 gets a bit too loud and the lead is a bit too funky for my taste... but I like really dull and slow music so that's just me ; )

 

Production is great as well by the way!

Thank you everyone I really appreciate the feedback!

I might re-do the lead on this, but I hacked this together suddenly today.

https://soundcloud.com/meandor6/quick-fall-change

Here is another from this weekend. It used to sound completely different until I accidentally overwrote my synth patches on my Alesis with some horrible GM stuff, but... instead of starting over I just went with it and tried to make the best of it.... heh...

 

https://soundcloud.com/meandor6/reflexian-earth-exercise

Two new ones from the latest batch of works.

The first is an intentionally mental/poly-rhythm type track (really gets going in the second half). The second is a darker ambient/soundscape track inspired in part by @darreichungsform latest works.

 

Hey, I inspired someone! :)) nice

 

First one: I like the polyrhyms and everything going on with percussions althoug I think the percussion could be more present and the melody more subtle, but some cool ideas. The last part with the (flanged?) white noise for example

 

Second one: I like it a lot, very full and wide droning with some interesting percussive moments - good work

Thanks darreichungsform--- Concerning "inhale fire"... I was just listening to your stuff on soundcloud and got struck with a bolt of inspiration so I went with it. Glad you enjoyed it. Cheers.

I feel like Treatment needs to develop faster

Yeah it's kind of a plodder.... 

Late night synth experiment.

 

https://soundcloud.com/meandor6/theyre-playing-games

Nice sound exploration, simple but not boring - I like

  On 8/29/2016 at 6:31 PM, qualitycontrol said:

Another new one-- different approach.

 

https://soundcloud.com/meandor6/matt-and-his-cohort-of-fuckwads

i listened to a few of your tracks and this was my favourite. i like the panning drums and the general vibe of this track - very dystopian future. i don't think the vocal-choir like pad works for the whole song, particularly at the end after the drum break comes in. personally i'd remove it from that last section.

 

in general over the tracks i listened to the weakest areas were the drum programming and mixing. the drums needed more variation and lack a human aspect (it works in the above track but not in all) and in terms of the mixing some of the tracks sound a little thin.

 

nice work dude.

Right on, thank you for the feedback guys.

Trying something different:

 

  On 11/19/2016 at 10:01 PM, qualitycontrol said:

Trying something different:

 

Wow, this is really impressive, love it!

Treatment synth sounds like something controlled by a theremin or something :)

 

You play live overdubin' the track or is it programmed?

 

I like the percussion - good to here something a little different from the techno norms. Thems sampled drums on Death Wave? With them drums and the mountain peak flute-like synths and bell/bowl sounds gives me some sort of Tibetan vibe - you need to go all out drukpa on it: get them synths gutteral chanting, them flutes to wailing demon horns and break and sharpen them bells - the spirits will appriciate it!

Thank you for the listen & feedback! Yes, most tracks there are semi-live. As of late I've been experimenting with more DAW-focused stuff. Funny that the B-Death-wave sample is actually from a country/rock/prog album from the 70s.